How to Use Two Pioneer CDJs for Audio Playback in TRAKTOR

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When using Pioneer CDJs to control TRAKTOR in Advanced HID mode, you may want to route the audio from each TRAKTOR Deck to a separate channel of your external mixer. With the following workarounds, you can use the built-in audio interfaces of your CDJs for this.

Note: This article only explains how to setup your CDJs for audio playback in TRAKTOR. In order to learn more about using CDJs as Advanced HID controllers in TRAKTOR, please continue here.

Once the driver has been succesfully installed, connect both CDJs to the computer. The Windows driver supports audio output to multiple devices so you won't need to use external tools for this setup.

Open TRAKTOR and go the Preferences > Audio Setup menu.

Make sure that the Pioneer CDJ Asio (ASIO) device is selected in the Audio Device list.

Now you are ready to configure the stereo outputs of both CDJs in the TRAKTOR Preferences > Output Routing menu.

Configuring TRAKTOR for Two Soundcards with System / External Tools

This configuration makes use of the Audio-MIDI-Setup utility (Mac OS X) or the ASIO4ALL universal driver (Windows). In order to learn more about these setups, please read here. For each successful configuration described in this article, you should see 4 different channel options in the TRAKTOR Preferences > Output Routing menu after selecting the driver in TRAKOR`s Audio Setup, as shown in the example below. The naming may differ depending on which method and operating system are used.

Note: This article only explains how to setup your CDJs as an audio interface. In order to learn how to setup CDJs as Advanced HID controllers for TRAKTOR, please read here.